Re: [PATCH] tun: use netif_receive_skb instead of netif_rx_ni

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On Wed, 2014-02-12 at 13:50 +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> On 02/12/2014 01:47 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > On Wed, 2014-02-12 at 13:28 +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> >
> >> A question: without NAPI weight, could this starve other net devices?
> > Not really, as net devices are serviced by softirq handler.
> >
> >
> 
> Yes, then the issue is tun could be starved by other net devices.

How this patch changes anything to this 'problem' ?

netif_rx_ni() can only be called if your process is not preempted by
other high prio tasks/softirqs.

If this process is scheduled on a cpu, then disabling bh to process
_one_ packet wont fundamentally change dynamic of the system.



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